Suspected U.S. airstrikes have pummeled sites across Yemen controlled by the country’s Houthi rebels, including neighborhoods in the capital, Sanaa.

A U.S. judge in Washington state has blocked enforcement of President Donald Trump’s order banning transgender people from serving in the military.

The proposed overhaul of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services could weaken and possibly eliminate a little-known agency that's crucial in helping Americans who struggle with their mental health or with addiction.

President Donald Trump has once again scrambled the politics of organized labor and the working class with his planned tariffs on auto imports.

As part of a push to roll back dozens of environmental regulations, the Trump administration is offering coal-fired power plants and other industrial polluters a chance to receive exemptions from rules requiring them to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals, including mercury, arsenic and benzene.

FBI Director Kash Patel may not have been part of a Signal chat in which other Trump administration national security officials discussed detailed attack plans.

Long-threatened tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump have plunged the country into a global trade war — all while on-again, off-again new levies continue to escalate uncertainty.

Election officials, state attorneys general and legal experts say President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to reshape election processes throughout the U.S. will likely face legal challenges for violating the Constitution.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is supporting the conservative candidate in the race to fill a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which could ultimately decide a Tesla lawsuit.

Gun safety groups are celebrating the Supreme Court decision upholding a Biden administration firearm regulation on nearly impossible-to-trace ghost guns.

President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking broad changes to how elections are run in the U.S. is vast in scope and holds the potential to reorder the voting landscape across the country, even as it faces almost certain litigation.

President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping executive action to overhaul elections in the United States.

Senate Democrats accuse the Environmental Protection Agency of breaking the law when they cancelled grants worth more than $1.5 billion focused on improving the environment in minority communities hit hard by pollution.

A federal judge is considering whether to block a Trump administration policy that bans the use of “X” marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers.

The American Society of Civil Engineers said that the state of U.S. infrastructure had improved, though just a little.

The death of former U.S. Rep. Mia Love has brought renewed attention to an aggressive form of brain cancer that killed her at age 49.

The Kremlin has confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin gifted to Donald Trump a portrait he commissioned of the U.S. president.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing people’s private data at the Education Department, the Treasury Department and the Office of Personnel Management.

During the first Trump administration, many journalists worried most about being called “fake news.”.

The horror of the 2011 Joplin tornado is the subject of a new documentary film.

As President Donald Trump's administration seeks to roll back funding for transit, walking and biking projects, some states are trying to advance them on their own.

South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden signed a bill into law Friday that restricts transgender people's use of communal facilities that align with their gender identity in schools and state buildings.

A Trump Cabinet secretary violated the law when he told TV viewers this week to buy Tesla stock, but it's not clear that anything will be done about it.

A U.S. official says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is beefing up the Navy warship presence in the Middle East, ordering two aircraft carriers to be there next month as the U.S. increases strikes on Yemen-based Houthi rebels.

Republican U.S. Rep. Celeste Maloy says the country risks drifting toward authoritarianism if the executive branch isn't brought under control.

Since it was created in 1979, the Education Department has enjoyed enough bipartisan support to keep it in business, with some Republicans even embracing its role in funding and shaping public schools.

The Trump administration has pushed back a Friday deadline for New York to end its new $9 toll on most drivers entering Manhattan.

An American man who was abducted more than two years ago while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist has been released by the Taliban.

President Donald Trump’s own words keep getting used against him in court while he faces lawsuits challenging his aggressive agenda.

Wildland firefighters will keep a four-year-old pay hike under a GOP-led spending bill signed by President Donald Trump.

Reaction in South Florida to President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has been far more muted than in his first term.

The Republican-backed candidate in Wisconsin’s closely watched state Supreme Court race has resurfaced long debunked concerns about voting fraud because of the late reporting of ballots in Milwaukee.

The Education Department has concluded that Maine’s education office violated Title IX antidiscrimination law by allowing transgender girls to play on girls’ sports teams and use girls’ sports facilities.

A federal judge has blocked enforcement of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender people from serving in the U.S. military.

Unredacted documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy have been released following an order by President Donald Trump shortly after he took office.

President Donald Trump has fired two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission, intensifying efforts to exert his administration’s control over independent agencies across the government.

A Justice Department attorney has urged an appeals court to suspend judicial orders favoring two board members who were fired by President Donald Trump from their respective posts in the federal government.

Two IRS whistleblowers who testified about Hunter Biden’s taxes are getting promotions.

America's ports have long struggled with dirty air that chokes nearby neighborhoods and jeopardizes the health of people living there.

Unredacted files related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy have been released.

U_S_ Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, speaking ahead of an expected phone conversation Tuesday between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Monday that while the negotiations to end Russia war with Ukraine have just begun, Trump is “looking forward to success.”.

President Donald Trump said Monday he was ending “immediately” the Secret Service protection details assigned to Joe Biden’s adult children, which the former president had extended for six months shortly before leaving office in January.

The top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital, who promoted President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was rigged, has formed a “special unit” to investigate election offenses, according to an email sent to lawyers in his office.

America's director of national intelligence says President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin “are very good friends."

President Donald Trump is claiming that pardons recently issued by Joe Biden to lawmakers and staff on the congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6 Capitol riot have no force because, he says, Biden signed them with an autopen.

A judge has ordered Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to pay more than $54,000 in attorneys’ fees and to turn over documents after finding that her office violated Georgia’s Open Records Act.

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing a backlash from members of his own party after a series of podcasts that featured Steve Bannon and other supporters of President Donald Trump.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is postponing several scheduled events this week to promote his new book after some liberal groups had planned to stage protests.

President Donald Trump’s supporters are echoing some of the rhetoric and actions that elsewhere have preceded attacks on the judiciary as the courts deliver a series of setbacks to his dramatic attempt to change the federal government without congressional approval.

The U.S. deported hundreds of immigrants after President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II.

President Donald Trump has signed into law legislation funding the government through the end of September.

El Salvador is agreeing to accept from the United States about 300 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang for one year.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has challenged Russian President Vladimir Putin to sign up to a ceasefire in its war against Ukraine now, if he is serious about peace.

Senate Democrats were grim Friday as they left Washington after a brutal 10-week stretch that consistently showed the limits of their new minority and culminated with a deeply personal rupture over how to best counter President Donald Trump.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is reemerging from a public-facing lull that followed last year’s election loss.

Vice President JD Vance said Friday that he was hopeful a deal to keep TikTok operating in the U.S. will be wrapped up by the early April deadline.

Three former Environmental Protection Agency leaders say rollbacks proposed by the Trump administration endanger the lives of millions of Americans and abandon the agency’s mission to protect the environment and human health.

The Trump administration has moved to dismiss lawsuits against Iowa and Oklahoma for their immigration laws.

Vice President JD Vance has toured a Michigan plastics manufacturing facility while promoting a promised Trump administration industrial renaissance nationwide even as jitters about rising tariffs and steep drops in consumer confidence and financial markets point to the opposite.

President Donald Trump’s volatile tariff threats are unleashing historic jumps in public anxiety.

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The first television ads dropped this week in an Ohio governor’s race that’s still more than a year away.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says Russian President Vladimir Putin met with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff to discuss details of the American proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in the war with Ukraine.

President Donald Trump used a visit to the Justice Department on Friday to air a litany of grievances about the criminal investigations that threatened to torpedo his political career.

The U.S. and Israel have reached out to officials of three East African governments to discuss using their territories as potential destinations to move Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

The Senate has passed a Republican-led six-month spending bill hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure.

Immigrants who are cooperating with officials while they apply to stay in the U.S. are now fearful of detention during routine appointments with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff has arrived in Moscow for high-level talks.

The fate of the IRS Direct File program remains unclear as Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency cleave their way through the federal bureaucracy.

The Trump administration has launched a review of organizations that provide temporary housing and other aid to migrants, suggesting they may have violated a law used to prosecute smugglers.

Struggling chipmaker Intel has hired former board member and semiconductor industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as the latest in a succession of CEOs to attempt to turn around the company that helped define Silicon Valley.

Again and again, the Trump White House has turned to a 73-year-old legal statute to defend its immigration crackdown.

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a series of actions to roll back landmark environmental regulations, including rules on pollution from coal-fired power plants, climate change and electric vehicles.

The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, effectively gutting an office that already faced a backlog of thousands of complaints from students and families across the country.

A former Republican Tennessee lawmaker has received a pardon from President Donald Trump two weeks into his 21-month prison sentence for an illegal campaign finance scheme.

President Donald Trump campaigned as a champion of free speech, but First Amendment advocates say they’ve never seen freedom of speech under attack the way it has been in his second term.

President Donald Trump in recent days has dismissed fears of a recession and brushed aside the stock market sell-off, going so far as to say, “You can’t really watch the stock market.”.

A federal judge in Boston has blocked the Trump administration’s plan to cut hundreds of millions of dollars for teacher training, finding cuts are already affecting training programs aimed at addressing a nationwide teacher shortage.

President Donald Trump says he's buying a Tesla to show loyalty to company CEO Elon Musk.

President Donald Trump selected a shiny red Tesla on the White House driveway as he showed support for Elon Musk's electric automaker.

The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights is best known for enforcing disability rights across America’s schools, but under President Donald Trump it’s being reshaped into a frontline figure in the president’s political battles.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has rescinded two Biden-era memos that had state agencies consider social and environmental justice factors when making decisions concerning critical national infrastructure work.

New Jersey Transit and its rail engineers union have agreed to a new labor contract, averting a possible strike.

At 83 years old, Bernie Sanders has emerged as an unlikely leader of the Democratic resistance to Donald Trump.

Conservatives have long talked about cutting government, but Republicans in Congress have shied away from approving deep reductions because of fear of how voters would react.

Donald Trump's style of diplomacy is a whole lot like a high-stakes business deal, and his No. 1 goal is to come out of the transaction on top.

A new law in South Dakota prohibiting the use of eminent domain to acquire land for carbon capture pipelines challenges the viability of a proposed project snaking through five Midwest states.

President Donald Trump's flurry of tariffs, government layoffs and spending freezes may be doing more to harm the U.S. economy than to fix it.

The Justice Department is celebrating its decision to drop a federal lawsuit against a Louisiana petrochemical plant accused of worsening cancer risks for residents in a majority-Black community.

A company owned by President Donald Trump is suing Capital One.

In 2015, then-President Barack Obama committed the United States to achieving newly adopted U.N. global goals by 2030.

President Donald Trump is ordering changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program that would disqualify workers of nonprofit groups deemed to have engaged in “improper” activities.

The Environmental Protection Agency has issued new guidance directing senior staff to submit spending items greater than $50,000 for approval from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

They came to vent and to cry and to exhort.

President Donald Trump says he is “strongly considering” levying new sanctions and tariffs on Russia for its war against Ukraine.

Democrats are hopeful their party's road to recovery lies in the price of eggs.

Georgia’s Senate has passed a bill that would allow President Donald Trump and more than a dozen people to seek compensation for legal bills stemming from an attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state.

The planned expansion of a massive liquefied natural gas facility in southeast Louisiana is a beacon for U.S. energy policy, according to two members of President Donald Trump's cabinet who spoke to workers there.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has refired the political action committee he spent heavily on in supporting Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, this time with the group’s first television advertisement, one lauding the first six weeks of the administration, where he is working as a close adviser to the president.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has promised to help Puerto Rico in her first visit to the U.S. territory as it struggles to rebuild from catastrophic hurricanes amid chronic power outages.